#AcademicFreedom erosion “is part of broader democratic backslide that we’re seeing in US” says Jennifer Jones at UCS. I’ve witnessed this demise at my own college especially since the pandemic. Faculty are decreasingly supported as content creation experts. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi...

Attn Algebra students: Studying radical functions this term? Roots of numbers? Roots of functions? Check-out the root of the word radical ;)

Fun hands-on maths project to try at home in celebration of the beginning of spring term. Even if you've played with #MobiusStrip before, you can always find a new "What if?" Q to explore.

Happy 2026 to all, especially my new Winter Term Calculus and Algebra students! findthefactors.com/2025/12/31/2...

Also pre-order books from your favourite authors! Bookstores use total number of pre-orders as a metric for how many copies to order. The more pre-orders, the higher expectation for a run on purchases early after release, so will stock extra copies and promote prominently.

Happy #Fibonacci Day! Nov 23rd (11.23) begins the Fibonacci Sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, ... which is used in computing, stock trading, and architecture and design. Nature is full of Fibonacci patterns, from DNA to hurricanes, much more! www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Topology and geometry can solve many of life’s woes. Here Dr. Roland Fryer, Professor of economics at Harvard University and NY Times Contributor, shares simple transparent process that uses #geometry to solve our #gerrymandering problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

This video on #scale from @3Blue1Brown www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ba... reminds me of the famous Eames video from 1977 called Powers of Ten www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKB.... I even have a flipbook of the Eames vid ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/Utkj3...

We’re celebrating Pi Day with Dr. @stevenstrogatz.com, who joins us to discuss how the ratio was "discovered" and its role in recent science.

Happy #PiDay! Pretty cool to have a blood moon total lunar eclipse overnight as we entered Pi Day 2025. Plenty of circles and spheres to celebrate on this last day of winter quarter classes. Cheers!

Having fun playing with my new wooden soma cube. Don't know why I didn't know this before, but it can be rearranged from 3x3x3 to 4x4x2 minus 5 contiguous unit cubes that form the shape of a pentomino (1 deep). 11 of the pentominos work (of the 12). Way cool! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGSH...

Hey new fall term students! Please read my "Why should college students study mathematics? Here are eight reasons. At least one will strike true for you." www.integreat.education/OL/docs/WhyS...

15 +/- yrs at the bird site, past year at mastodon (@[email protected]). Checking BlueSky out! Bit concerned just another billionaire-run corporate SM, we'll see. To stay must support ALT descriptions, ability to edit posts, have interesting #mathematics content, and plenty of kind people.